New York City, Sunday, June 6, 2010, – by El Marco
Pamela Geller, the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America, speaks passionately about jihad, sharia, and why the idea of a mosque in this spot is so wrong.
“We are here today in honor of D-Day, when the Allied Forces began to defeat Nazism. And the symbolism should not be lost. Not only should the symbolism not be lost, but we’re on the corner of Church and Liberty.
Ground Zero is a war memorial. Ground Zero is a burial ground…We are asking for sensitivity…
This is part of the plane that went into the Trade Center, that’s in the Burlington Coat Factory (the building that was bought with mysterious funding for the mosque). Designate it as a historic landmark, like Pearl Harbor. We are going to sue the U.S. Government to get a designation of war memorial status.”
The crowd gathers. Tower 7 is the tall building in the background.
Simon Deng, who was enslaved as a child by Arabs in his native land, Sudan, addresses rally.
Slavery, genocide, terrorism and sharia must not be tolerated. Many Americans, including Mayor Bloomberg, don’t understand enough about what Islamic countries are like. Even in the more moderate moslem countries, like Egypt, churches are burned and there is no tolerance of other religions.
Former Moslem Noni Darwish, who grew up in Gaza and Egypt, also addressed the rally. She said:
“We are threatened right here in America by mosques that are issuing fatwas against us…I understand the symbolism of a mosque…they’ve been built historically on the sites of Jewish temples, churches, Hindu temples — it’s a sign of being conquered. After they conquer a country, every church, every temple, must be converted to a mosque. You know the people who come here and ask for sensitivity training: where are the churches in Saudi Arabia? Even in Egypt, the churches have been burned…Do we need an area of pilgrimage for muslims in New York? Our 3,000 fellow Americans who were killed on 9/11 are looking down on us, and they are saying we don’t want to hear “Allah hu Akbar” any more.”
Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch. From his report:
“By the time the rally was in full swing, the crowd filled the pens, the park, and the other side of the street. Police estimated that 5,000 people were there, and other estimates ranged as high as 10,000. The crowd carried signs expressing their love for freedom, their contempt for Sharia, and their anger at Islamic supremacism and insult to the memories of those murdered on 9/11 that this mosque represents.
And we had a full spectrum of top quality speakers. There were 9/11 family members, including C. Lee Hanson, who lost his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter on 9/11. There were people who experienced the oppression of Sharia firsthand, such as the Egyptian ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish, the Sudanese ex-slave Simon Deng, and the Hindu human rights activist Babu Suseelan. There was Dennis McKenna, who worked recovering remains from the ruins of the World Trade Center; Alan T. DeVona, the patrol sergeant on duty on September 11, 2001; and Keith LeBow, an ironworker who was one of the first responders on the scene on September 11. There was Herb London of the Hudson Institute and Beverly Carlson of the Band of Mothers — and a host of other speakers, all lovers of America and lovers of freedom.
The theme among all the speakers was common: the mosque is an insult to the Americans who were murdered there. It is a manifestation of a radically intolerant belief system that is incompatible with the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. And even with all the political elites against us, and the mainstream media indifferent or compromised (5,000 to 10,000 people at the rally, and no mainstream media coverage!), we will prevail. All we have on our side is the truth.”
There are moslems who understand that the location for the mosque is a bad idea too. In an editorial in today’s Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby writes:
“Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, a devout Muslim and director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington, notes that the spiritual leader of the Cordoba Initiative, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, describes himself as a Sufi — a Muslim focused onIslamic mysticism and spiritual wisdom. But “building a 15-story Islamic center at ground zero isn’t something a Sufi would do,’’ according to Schwartz, also a practitioner of Sufism. “Sufism is supposed to be based on sensitivity toward others,’’ yet Cordoba House comes across as “grossly insensitive.’’ He rejects Rauf’s stance that a highly visible Muslim presence at ground zero is the way to make a statement opposing what happened on 9/11. Better, in his view, is the approach of many Muslims “who hate terrorism and who have gone privately to the site and recited prayers for the dead silently and unperceived by others.’’
Dan Maloney of Gathering of Eagles, a veterans’ group whose motto is “fighting the insurgency at home”. Our men and women who are deployed in the middle east and elsewhere are putting their lives on the line, but so are those who are speaking out against radical Islam here at home.
The brave organizer, Pamela Geller. See her amazing blog, Atlas Shrugs. There are videos, interviews, and text about the Ground Zero mosque, about honor killings, sharia, and much more. Add it to your daily reading list if you want to understand Islam and the middle east.
Many more photos to follow later – come back soon for Part 2!
Update: videos of speeches are up at No Mosque at Ground Zero.
Commentary from the inimitable Pat Condell, who calls Cordoba House a “towering triumphalist mosque”:
…”It would be hard to imagine a more provocative gesture, short of standing on their graves and burning the American flag. Yet, how typical of Islam: with its own hair-trigger sensitivity to the slightest imagined insult, to do something so arrogant and so insensitive…
A much more appropriate place for a mosque would be the United Nations. It’s become so islamo-friendly in recent years I’m surprised it doesn’t already have a minaret…
Cordoba is the city in southern Spain where muslims built their first great mosque at the start of, and as a symbol of, their conquest of Spain. The Ground Zero mosque is intended to serve the same purpose in America. Building mosques on conquered sacred ground is standard practice. It’s what Islam has always done to assert its supremacy and that is what’s happening here…
And of course they know how offensive it is, how insulting it is…and they also know that once it’s there it’ll be there forever, as a permanent affront to all Americans, gloating in triumph, and a major bridgehead in the ongoing stealth jihad. That’s how the muslim world will see it, and that’s how they’ll be encouraged to see it. And to be fair to them, that’s exactly what it will be: confirming what they’ve always suspected – that America is a soft country, a decadent country, crippled by political correctness, confused and guilt-ridden, with no backbone and no pride…
They plan to open it on the tenth anniversary of the atrocity. Is that tasteless enough for you? I’m surprised they didn’t organize a 757 fly-past…
But you know, it doesn’t have to be this way. Here in London, we had a similar situation just recently, where they wanted to build a giant mosque to overshadow the Olympic Games. Public opinion put a stop to that, and public opinion can put an end to this as well…”
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The Great Dictator – Chaplin
The question i have is why is this even up for debate?? This MUST not happen. I am a mere bystander in this but surely the people in New York must have the final say and if that say is NO then it simply must not happen
What an amazing brave woman you are Pamela Geller. I hope to be able to help someday!
Hello,
Great site. I support your points. I hope enough others see the light to do something about these issues. There is a new fiction book out called ‘Obsequium’ by Blaine that addresses these same issues. It focuses on the more immediate threat of Islamic growth in Europe. I recommend it!
Scott
Surely and certainly there will be opposition to a mosque built directly at the symbol of Ground Zero, where 911 is still very fresh in the memories of most, even though 10 years had passed. While it is not at all plausible that such an idea could have been even possible, it had happened and who’s going to stop this, may we know? This is politics, religion, feelings, racism, patriotism and bigotry enmeshed into one tapestry.
lets not forget that muslims were killed on 9/11 also , and if u want unity how is a mosuqe going to harm u ….i dont understand why u fear islam so much….what is it
anyhow ur all pathectic..and really need to look at the bigger pciture but for small minded amercians thats very hard…
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The third holiest site of Islam – the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem – is exactly where the legendary Temple of Solomon once stood.
The Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in India was built by the Muslim invaders after pulling down a Hindu temple that stood there at the birth site of Rama the most widely worshipped Hindu deity in India.
It was not long ago that the sculptured image of Budha in Afganisthan – a much known World Monument – came crashing down at the behest of the Afghan govt that received millions of requests to desist from the act.
The Islamic Youth in Great Britain openly stated in a BBC appearance this year that one of their chief objectives is to build the largest mosque in the world where the Buckingham Palace stands today.
Is there anyone out there who can see a pattern – of a group of fanatics systematically pulling down the most identifiable symbols of other religious/cultural groups and establishing their own symbols on those sites ?
If so, they would see what has really been happening in New York – namely, the destruction of the most recognizable symbol of American economy followed by the construction of a mosque at its site to symbolize victory and domination.
Unfortunately for the Americans, Barack Hussein Obama simply refuses to see it !
Mayor Bloomberg does not see it – or is too naive and simple to see it, may be as a result of his over enthusiasm to go down in history as a true champion of liberty and human rights !!
And a million other well-meaning but abysmally naive Americans don’t see it simply because of their total ignorance of History !!!
GOD SAVE AMERICA.
Well said Thomas.
El Marco
Why isn’t there a proposition on the November election ballot to let the people of New York Decide! I suppose it is because once again we the people are being bullied by our elected officials. Where are the lawyers that can write initiatives and referendums? Why aren’t we circumventing these “elected representatives” and allowing the people to directly make policy? This is supposed to be a government of the people by the people!
i saw the vedio pamla Geller she was speaking the truth about islam from their quran. but i m very surprized that muslim has only one verse in their book to tell non muslims that if kill one person killed whole world and if u safe one persen u saved whole world.My opinon for this verse is that this verse is only use for takiya.takiya ia a term to lie for islam is not sin’ islamic spokeman used the same term .there r 164 verse in quran for jihad. Thankyou. May Lord Bless u all.
I had to laugh @ the lady in the picture holding the sign, “Islam hates gays”!! Funnnny!! Actually, that would be properly categorized a LIE! Actually, it’s more similar to Christianity to the degree that while it hates the sin, it doesn’t hate the sinner.
It isn’t a lie, according to Sharia Law, the Law of Allah, homosexuals are to be put to death. Christianity does not execute 13 and 15 y o boys for being homosexuals like they did in Iran in 2005.
HAH! That must be the reason that we see gays hanged by the neck from cranes, in public squares, in the land of the heathen muslim. We have all seen these images, and they are not faked. One of my countrymen was there to photograph some of these hideous examples of the ‘religion of peace’.
The three men tied together and hanged in Tehran were left there until the weight of their bodies pulled apart from their heads and necks.
Yes, a good example of not hating the gays.
After Ground Zero they may want to build the mosque in Washington at the
Arl.semetry. Will Pr.Obama agree then? /Excuse my English -I am Russian
speaking/.
And one more- I am afraid all that mosques in N.Y. will became the place
for the american muslims to grow as terrorist.
Their Koran tels to kill averyone who doesn’t believe in Allach.
The FACT that the Saint Nickolas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed on 9/11, and the FACT that the Government of the State of New York has turned its back on efforts to rebuild it, are proof that the powers that be in New York are in favor of the Islamitization, and in fact are in favor of the overthrow of the United States. It is time to AWAKEN and RISE UP in America! A revolution is already underway, and it is time to ABOLISH the Socialistic Republic form of Government which has taken root across our country. If we fail to do so, no one reading these words will breath their last breath on American soil, for the obvious FACT that THIS IS NO LONGER THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! We are living under oppression, our Constitution has been usurped, our freedoms gradually, steadily eroded away daily over the past fifty years. The people useually get what they vote for, we are now reaping the results of the past fifty years. Now it is up to the people to take it all back, to Stand or Fall. IT MAY BE TOO LATE.
Is there a message here???? Yes, there is, and they are claiming America for allah.
if we don’t wake up soon, we are going to “politically correct” ourselves right out of our own country!
“For evil to flourish, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
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